Explicit
The Explicit is the closing formula in medieval manuscripts and incunabula, together with the information about the place, date, scribe, author or printer that often follows. Often it is highlighted in color and typeface design.
The final formula is explicit liber “the book is over”, probably an abbreviation for liber explicitus [est] , literally “the book is spread out”. The explicit is related to the introductory incipit and corresponds to the colophon .
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Ernst Georges: Comprehensive Latin-German concise dictionary . Vol. 1, Col. 2588
- ↑ Christine Jakobi-Mirwald: The medieval book . Stuttgart 2004, p. 188
literature
- Elisabeth Alföldi-Rosenbaum: Explicit , in: Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte , Vol. 6, 1971, Sp. 712–714.
- Ursula Rautenberg (Ed.): Reclams Sachlexikon des Buches .2. improved edition, Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010542-0